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Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The Japanese auto-parts maker is spending up to ¥1.5bn on a share buyback even as debt from its Hi-Lex Act deal pushes its equity ratio down to 58%, and it is closing plants in the US and Spain while reorganizing all 13 of its domestic factories by 2028.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Yoshinoya's US subsidiary is paying $28.7m for 70% of Kizuki International, with more than a quarter of that funded by 380,500 newly issued treasury shares rather than cash, plus an earn-out tied to Kizuki's results through 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Securities took up 87% of a planned share allotment, handing GO Inc. about ¥6.99bn to fund its autonomous-taxi project with Waymo and Nihon Kotsu, with any leftover cash reserved for taxi and logistics acquisitions rather than marketing spend until 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Takeuchi Mfg. passed on less than half of a ¥3.54bn US tariff increase this quarter, cutting operating profit 9.3% even as orders from American rental firms surged 59% and full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Daicel is committing roughly ¥2bn to a 50-50 joint venture with Formosa Plastics in Kaohsiung to supply Taiwan's semiconductor industry, but Formosa's own board has not yet signed off, and the plant won't start operating until January 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Post Insurance wants to hand decades-old, pre-privatization underwriting risk to a reinsurance vehicle SCOR would build and run, taking a stake capped below half the voting rights, but the companies have signed only a memorandum, not a final deal.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A core IT system migration and European restructuring costs cut quarterly operating profit by a fifth at Yaskawa Electric, even as semiconductor and data-centre-linked investment pushed revenue up 10.6%.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A monthly filing shows Tokyo Electron spent ¥11.47bn to retire only 2.76% of the shares authorized under its new buyback, already using 7.65% of the ¥150bn budget the board approved in May.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Fujikura and its China unit will hand over their full 60% holding in a Wuhan optical-fiber preform venture to co-founder FiberHome Telecommunication for ¥7.97bn and ¥3.99bn, with the deal closing by late September 2026.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
East Japan Railway is selling ¥50bn in unsecured bonds across three-, five- and ten-year tranches, the fourth drawdown from a shelf programme that runs until March 2027.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥162.7bn loan-funded tender offer has taken Medipal Holdings' stake in PALTAC past 90%, and the wholesaler now plans to force out remaining shareholders at the same ¥6,650-a-share price.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Aeon Financial Service's net profit for the quarter to May more than doubled to ¥8.97bn as Japanese loan and card-fee income rose and Malaysia and Hong Kong expanded, yet the group's forecast for a 28.9% full-year profit decline is unchanged.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Storage-Oh's board has told shareholders to tender into Arealink's ¥1,340-a-share offer, a 42.25% premium over the pre-announcement price, with major holders already locked in and a squeeze-out ready for anyone who holds out.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan Display's board has voted to dissolve JDI Hong Kong Limited after the unit's revenue collapsed from $636.6mn to $79.2mn in two years; operations stop September 30, 2026, as part of a wider overseas sales reshuffle.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales of extreme ultraviolet photoresist ingredients lifted Osaka Organic Chemical's electronics-materials profit 68.4% in the six months to May, and the specialty chemical maker has allied with Sanpo Chemical Laboratories to broaden its semiconductor materials lineup.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Weathernews trimmed 15,300 hours of monthly labor with AI and grew operating profit 16% in the year to May 2026, but a one-off commemorative dividend that pushed its payout ratio to 99.1% is set to unwind, with the company's own forecast putting next year's ratio at 58.3%.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Treasure Factory raised its full-year operating profit target to ¥5.33bn and added ¥2 to its interim dividend after a quarter where sales rose 16.4% and operating profit jumped 24%, though the company says some of that strength borrowed from the quarter ahead.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
TSI Holdings has locked in a binding deal for 87.7% of textile maker Toyo Enterprise plus all of its trading arm, which owns the rest, but the purchase price stays secret because the sellers are individuals, not a company.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
The metals group will collect no interest on ¥35bn of new bonds due 2030, priced above face value and sold only to investors in Europe and Asia, with a second tranche maturing in 2032 filed alongside it but not yet detailed.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
New York-based Indus Capital Partners now holds 11.15% of Suruga Bank's voting rights, up from 9.38%, after an amended large-shareholding report filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on July 8.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
A former accountant at CKD's service subsidiary diverted company funds into a personal account for more than five years before his July 9 arrest; CKD has already booked the ¥178mn loss and is cutting pay for the executives on both sides of the reporting line.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's trade ministry is rewriting the Green Innovation Fund's roadmap for cutting carbon from industrial furnaces in steel and chemicals plants, and manufacturers have until August 7 to comment before the next funding round opens.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Kewpie's domestic operating margin jumped to 7.7% on price increases and a cheaper egg benchmark, but overseas operating profit fell 13% on Americas softness and new-factory depreciation, even as full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Applied Materials accounted for 21.9% of Rorze's quarterly sales, up from 15.3% a year earlier, as AI-driven memory investment pushed the Hiroshima wafer-handling equipment maker's semiconductor orders up 1.9 times to a record ¥42.0bn. Rorze left its full-year profit guidance, set in April, unchanged.